What is Pegasus Spyware and how it spy’s your WhatsApp?

Pegasus Spyware is a bug identified by WhatsApp in May 2019. It is spyware developed by an Israeli company, NSO. Pegasus is a bug present in the WhatsApp call function which installs malicious code into the user’s phones.

How does Pegasus Spyware
enter into your phone? Pegasus Spyware how it works?

The malicious code is transmitted by calling the target phone on WhatsApp. This malicious code enters the phone even if the call is not answered. Some reports say that the log of that particular call gets erased automatically. WhatsApp call is the only way to deliver the Pegasus spyware into a phone.

What Pegasus Spyware
can do?

Once the “Pegasus Spyware” Whatsapp is installed on your phone, it can send your phone contacts, calendar events, phone calls and messages on communication apps like WhatsApp and Telegram to the spyware’s controller. It can steal messages from even services that offer encryption because it was taking the messages before the encryption process, according to anti-malware service Kaspersky. The controller can also turn the phone into a spying device by switching on its camera or microphone.

How safe you are?

Mostly the Android
devices are at a higher risk. As claimed by the Kaspersky, Apple’s iOS security
update 9.3.5 take care of the vulnerability exploited by Pegasus. Google, in an
earlier blogpost, says it identifies infected Android phones and disable the
malware and informs the targets.

How To Prevent Pegasus
Attack?

The Facebook-owned messaging giant WhatsApp has listed the two precautionary measures-

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